Environmental effects on galaxies in clusters

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Feb 1982

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982apj...253...58m&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 1, vol. 253, Feb. 1, 1982, p. 58-69.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Galactic Clusters, Galactic Evolution, Galactic Rotation, Galactic Structure, Stellar Motions, Astrodynamics, Contours, Disk Galaxies, Elliptical Galaxies, Environment Effects, Halos

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Influences from the cluster environment build up steadily over long times so that the internal dynamics of a galaxy in a cluster change appreciably over a cluster crossing time. The galaxy can no longer be considered as an isolated object. Slow rotation of elliptical galaxies and observations on galaxy alignment within clusters of galaxies provide two independent pieces of observational evidence for cluster influence. A first cut at studying cluster influences on the internal dynamics of galaxies is presented by means of numerical experiments started from a rotating barlike galaxy placed in an external force field like that which a galaxy sees in a cluster. Both pattern motion and observable rotation are tidally braked by the cluster force field. The experiments verify that the braking rate scales inversely as the square of the cluster crossing time. Systematic internal motions are reduced so that observational V/sigma is less than 0.2, in agreement with observations on elliptical galaxies but sharply reduced from V/sigma of approximately 1.0 for the original model. The final shapes of tidally braked galaxies need not be spherical.

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